Triple

T12653024
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walton family E302211 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object John T. Walton
John T. Walton was an American businessman, Vietnam War veteran, and son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, known for his role in expanding the family’s business interests and his philanthropy in education.
E996606 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John T. Walton | Statement: [Walton family, hasMember, John T. Walton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John T. Walton
Context triple: [Walton family, hasMember, John T. Walton]
  • A. M. Earl Smith
    M. Earl Smith is a writer and editor known for his work on the fanzine Journey Planet and contributions to speculative fiction and fan culture.
  • B. John Hembree
    John Hembree is a musician best known for briefly serving as a bassist for the American rock band Paramore.
  • C. Donald G. Mitchell
    Donald G. Mitchell was a 19th-century American essayist and literary critic best known for his reflective, pastoral writings under the pen name Ik Marvel.
  • D. Karl Pitterson
    Karl Pitterson is a Jamaican record producer and audio engineer best known for his work on classic reggae and dub recordings in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • E. John Rawlins
    John Rawlins is a fictional Union Army soldier and moral center of the 1989 American Civil War film "Glory," portrayed as a steady, compassionate leader among the Black volunteers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John T. Walton
Triple: [Walton family, hasMember, John T. Walton]
Generated description
John T. Walton was an American businessman, Vietnam War veteran, and son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, known for his role in expanding the family’s business interests and his philanthropy in education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John T. Walton
Target entity description: John T. Walton was an American businessman, Vietnam War veteran, and son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, known for his role in expanding the family’s business interests and his philanthropy in education.
  • A. M. Earl Smith
    M. Earl Smith is a writer and editor known for his work on the fanzine Journey Planet and contributions to speculative fiction and fan culture.
  • B. John Hembree
    John Hembree is a musician best known for briefly serving as a bassist for the American rock band Paramore.
  • C. Donald G. Mitchell
    Donald G. Mitchell was a 19th-century American essayist and literary critic best known for his reflective, pastoral writings under the pen name Ik Marvel.
  • D. Karl Pitterson
    Karl Pitterson is a Jamaican record producer and audio engineer best known for his work on classic reggae and dub recordings in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • E. John Rawlins
    John Rawlins is a fictional Union Army soldier and moral center of the 1989 American Civil War film "Glory," portrayed as a steady, compassionate leader among the Black volunteers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d7bded71a88190bb76e2413af9ea66 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96160730c81909e1aa3efb51bf159 completed April 10, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6688104d48190939933b93b7e60cc completed May 2, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f66c572f848190a8cad6311d3315a3 completed May 2, 2026, 9:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f66cef79148190a052fb9ade3b0d27 completed May 2, 2026, 9:30 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:18 p.m.